Q: Does the school provide a school bus for the convenience of transportation? If so, at what grade does it start?

Answer: Open Window School provides morning bus transportation for all families of students in grades K-8. There are two routes, I-405 route includes South Kirkland-Bellevue-Mercer Island; and Sammamish/Issaquah route. Families can choose to sign up for a year-round unlimited plan or decide the number of days to travel by themselves. Due to the uncertain time of after-school activities, the school does not provide school bus shuttle service.

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Q: Is the school racially diverse?

Answer: The school maintains a diversified enrollment strategy. According to age, able-bodied/disabled people, race, family composition, gender, language differences, race, religion, sexual orientation, and whether they are from private schools and under-represented groups (Blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans).

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Question: How does the school provide Academic guidance;

Answer: Emphasize academic, critical thinking and guide students to solve problems independently;

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Q: Do you provide summer camps and field trips?

Answer: Yes. Subjects include: mathematics, art, outdoor sports, architecture, programming, etc.

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Question: How to cultivate students' social and teamwork skills?

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Lower grades: The school program involves five core competencies: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, interpersonal skills, and responsible decision-making. The school will arrange for teachers and counselors to collaborate to create courses and collect ideas and activities from a variety of resources. Courses may include role-playing, puppet stories , community building activities, or class discussions, self-reflection, group problem solving, and many other positive learning experiences.

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Middle School: To enable young people to learn to regulate emotions, care for others, observe morals and assume responsibilities, and make correct decisions.

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Q: Does the school focus on social and teamwork?

Answer: Yes. It is very important to them.

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Question: The number of classes and students in the school, the teacher-student ratio?

Answer: There are 18 students in a class, the total number of students is 355, and the teacher-student ratio is 1:9.

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Q: Does the teacher participate in training every year?

Answer: The school encourages Open Window teachers to participate in seminars, on-the-job training, and other activities, and encourages their professional development.

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Q: What is the school curriculum syllabus?

Answer: All grades are provided with basic subjects, social sciences. The curriculum also focuses on cultivating students' self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, interpersonal skills, responsibility, decision-making and other key areas.
Fourth grade: language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, Spanish.
Grade 5-8: Mathematics, Preparatory Algebra, Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2.

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Q: Do the school provide sex education?

Answer: In fourth grade.

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Q: Does the school require donations?

Answer: Yes.

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Q: Application deadline and application procedure?

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